Google Chrome is as trustworthy as Google .. which is to say that it's not trustworthy.
I'm checking out Chromium again, and I found an extremely-buried setting.
chrome://flags/
Disable hyperlink auditing Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android Disable sending hyperlink auditing pings.
What the fuck? "Hyperlink auditing pings?"
Chromium has that shit baked in and enabled by default.
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